Remember the four new games in development at Microsoft's new Lift London studio, the ones that will apparently "redefine what triple-A represents"? You can expect to lay eyes on three of them in the not too distant future.
That's according to studio head Lee Schuneman, who spoke to OXM as part of the London Calling feature in our Christmas 2013 issue. "We've got a high bar for innovation," he said, during an interview recorded in November. "We have three cool titles in development that we'll reveal very soon."
As to what those titles might consist of, all we know is that they're free-to-play games for "connected platforms". Addressing audiences at the Develop conference this spring, Schuneman highlighted the need to "build universes that will grow with the audience and follow them onto whatever device they own". Something in the vein of the (excellent) cross-platform Skulls of the Shogun seems probable, then.
It's also likely that the new games will follow in the footsteps of Remedy's Quantum Break, which seeks to collapse (or at least, make an artistic point of) the "barrier" 'twixt games and non-interactive media. As Schuneman puts it in the new issue, "we want to create new experiences that join TV, gaming and so on, and bring it into something unique."
In other news, Microsoft is currently "incubating" a number of "primarily cloud-based" Xbox One titles.
http://www.oxm.co.uk/67392/microsoft-to-reveal-three-cool-lift-london-games-very-soon/
